Russian troops have continued to retreat from Kyiv in the last 24 hours, although the withdrawal remains at about 20% of the force Russian President Vladimir Putin sent to seize the Ukrainian capital, a senior Defense official said Thursday.
," Klitschko said in a video address to European Union regional officials translated by Reuters. "The whole night we listened to sirens, to rocket attacks, and we listened to huge explosions east of Kyiv and north of Kyiv. There are immense battles there, people died, still die."The impact of a war that's not going according to plan appears to be taking an increasing toll on Russian forces and their leader.
A U.S. official who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity said Putin has felt misled by the Russian military, leading to tension between the sides.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has stripped two generals of their military rank. Zelenskyy didn’t say anything about the fates of the two generals other than them being stripped of their rank.Russian troops were exposed to “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches around the Chernobyl nuclear plant and have left the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company said Thursday.
She said the Russian troops besieging Chernihiv, about 90 miles north of Kyiv, have made it impossible to evacuate civilians from a city that has been cut off from food, water and other supplies.The global fishing industry expects to feel the impact of the sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, with price increases and supply disruptions likely on the way.
“The last package doesn’t need to be the final one, it should not be the final one,” he said. Habeck said French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire had identified additional sanctions but did not detail them.
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